Lieu-dit · Noiron-sur-Seine
Le Dessus de la Caure
Le Dessus de la Caure is a lieu-dit in Noiron-sur-Seine, Châtillonnais, Burgundy, whose largest tier is regional.
4.70 ha
delimited
298 m
elevation
10.9 h
sun at harvest
Open on the mapWith the boundary, the plots, the sun through the year and the bedrock.
In figures
| Level | Regionalinao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Village | Noiron-sur-Seine |
| Region | Châtillonnais, Burgundy |
| Delimited | 4.70 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 3.97 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 5 |
| Grape variety | pinot noir, gamay, césar also permitted: aligoté, chardonnay, gamay de bouze, gamay de chaudenay, melon, pinot blanc, pinot grisinao-cahiers-des-charges (7 September 2026) · dgddi-superficies-produits (7 September 2026) · franceagrimer-observatoire-viticulture (7 September 2026) |
| Organic | 0%agence-bio-cartobio (c. 5 September 2026) · agence-bio-operateurs (5 September 2026) |
Place in the village
Among the 9 named plots ranked regional in Noiron-sur-Seine, from high to low:
Position
298 m
elevation
14.2%
steep
SE
southeast
upper
concave fold
| Elevation | 298 m 282 to 319 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Daytime temperature | −0.17 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 262 m, ± 0.08 °Cmeteo-france-quotidiennes (6 September 2026) · meteo-france-postes (6 September 2026) · meteo-france-lsh (6 September 2026) · ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Slope | 14.2% 8.1°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | southeast 131°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 72% upper slope, in a concave hollow, 209 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 29%Calcaire de Tonnerre, Upper Oxfordian to Lower Kimmeridgian about 157–152 million years
- 4%Oxfordian marl with iron oolites 159.5–157 million years
- 68%Limestone of Vermenton, Middle to Upper Oxfordian about 160–157 million years
Not a borehole: ordered by age, thickness by share of surface.
In the glass. Related to the upper slopes of Saint-Aubin and Santenay: tight, mineral Chardonnay and slender Pinot. Read as a tendency; altitude and aspect do a great deal.
White to beige, partly oolitic and reef limestone from the Middle and Upper Oxfordian (the former Rauracian), deposited on a warm, shallow carbonate platform. On the Côte de Beaune and in the Châtillonnais it forms the hard plateau edge and the upper slope above the Oxfordian marl.
For the vine. Hard, shallow and very free-draining: little water, high lime content, quick to warm. Roots depend on fissures and a thin cover of clay or scree. Usually the highest plots; cool because of the altitude.
Saint-Aubin, Santenay, La Rochepot, Baubigny; Châtillonnais: Molesme, Gommeville, Noiron-sur-Seine.
BRGM geological map at 1:50,000. It tells vineyards apart, not plots within a vineyard. The link between rock and taste is indirect: soil depth, water and warmth do the work, and slope, vine age and the cellar do the rest. Units on that map: j5b-c, j6a, j5a.
brgm-bdcharm50 (c. 4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
07:29
above the hill
18:22
behind the hill
10.9 h
sun at harvest
0.8 h
lost to the hill
Grey: sun up, but behind the hill or the vineyard's own slope.
Around harvest the sun rises here at 07:29 above the hill and disappears at 18:22 behind the hill: 10.9 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 14.7° above the horizon to the west.
| Irradiation | +1.7% versus flat land 1,017 kWh/m² from April to October, 45% of it diffuseunder the average cloudiness of 2005 to 2023 (PVGIS-SARAH3, EU JRC); direct, diffuse and reflected light togetherign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) · ign-lidarhd-mnh (6 September 2026) · ign-bdforet-v2 (5 September 2026) · jrc-pvgis-sarah3 (10 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Open sky | 99.1% of the sky the slope itself sees; the surrounding relief blocks the restign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) · ign-lidarhd-mnh (6 September 2026) · ign-bdforet-v2 (5 September 2026) |
Three reference days and the caveat
| rise | set | sun | day | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 June | 06:09 | 20:05 | 13.9 h | 16.0 h |
| 20 September | 07:29 | 18:22 | 10.9 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 08:30 | 15:36 | 7.1 h | 8.4 h |
Computed from the IGN elevation model at 5 m: horizon in 36 directions up to six kilometres, sun position per minute, angle of incidence on the mean slope. Clear sky, with the tree canopy from the IGN forest inventory as a raised horizon (15 m closed forest, 5 m heath, trees within 60 m ignored), 51% of the far field is forest (BD Forêt), no buildings.
Air and cold
48 m
above the lowest point
drains far away
cold air
little inflow
1.8 ha flows past
| Cold air | 48 m high on the slope, cold air drains far awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 1.8 ha little inflow, mean over the polygon 0.22 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
SE-NW
down the slope
1.36 m
between the rows
100%
vineyard in 1950
| Rows | SE-NW (130°) down the slope (2°), every 1.36 m, varies by plotmeasured over 4.0 of 4.0 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vineyard in 1950 | 100% rows then ran 87° differentlyassessed over 3.1 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026) |
Climate over time
station CHATILLON/SEINE, 262 m, 13.0 km away
growing season, April to October: 1951-1980: 13.6 °C, 1991-2020: 15.0 °C
Huglin index: 1951-1980: 1,453, 1991-2020: 1,716
last spring frost: 1951-1980: day 128, 1991-2020: day 124
series homogenised through 2022
The name
- dessus
- above, higher than the thing named. Les Charmes-Dessus lies above Les Charmes-Dessous. Shape and position · Terroirium, Eigen telling over de namen in deze atlas (2026)
This is about the words, not about this plot: the same name can have arisen differently elsewhere.
Who owns land here
2.06 ha of 4.70 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity
- GFA DES VIGNOTTES23%
- COMMUNE DE NOIRON SUR SEINE21%
- private individuals or unknown56%
- 1.09 ha GFA DES VIGNOTTES GFA · land company
- 0.97 ha COMMUNE DE NOIRON SUR SEINE COM · public
Private individuals or unknown: 2.64 ha.
Share of the delimited hectares. Only legal entities are public in France; everything else stays unnamed. From the public register of legal entities (DGFiP), as of 1 January 2025. The owner is not always the one who works the vineyard: tenancy is common.
Nearby lieux-dits
- En Griffon Regional · 150 m
- En Chat Rongé Regional · 300 m
- En Matrot-Ouest Regional · 550 m
- En Matrot-Est Regional · 800 m
- Au Dessus des Crots Regional · 800 m
- De Cheuleux les Coteaux Regional · 850 m
- En la Commelle Regional · 850 m
- Au Dessus de la Commelle Regional · 1.0 km
In the same village, measured between label points. That does not say which ones border each other; the map shows that.
Where each figure comes from
- Classification
- The INAO delimitation per denomination, cut against the cadastral parcel. Only the INAO's own plans are legally binding; this map is informational.
- Area
- Computed on the sphere from longitude and latitude (turf.area), not in Lambert-93. For an appellation this is the union of the INAO polygons across commune boundaries, measured on the unclosed geometry; the fifteen metres used to close the outline for the map are not counted. For a climat it is the union of the cadastral lieu-dit polygons with that name.
- Planted
- Parcel area times vineyard cover, where cover comes from the IGN vegetation layer supplemented by the agricultural declaration. Checked against the customs harvest declarations: median deviation 5.1 per cent over a hundred appellations.
- Elevation
- Mean of the elevation-model cells whose centre falls inside the polygon, on a 5 m grid.
- Slope
- Per-cell slope from the elevation model using Horn's method, then averaged over the cells in the polygon.
- Aspect
- Vector mean of the per-cell aspect. A plain average would turn north-east and north-west into south.
- Sun at harvest
- Hours of direct sun on 20 September under a clear sky, with the horizon in 36 directions out to six kilometres and the height of woods and buildings on top of it. Canopy height is measured where LiDAR HD covers the area and estimated from BD Forêt where it does not; the panel states which of the two was used.
- Grape variety by appellation
- Per appellation and colour the permitted varieties from the approved cahier des charges; per appellation and tier the declared hectares of white and red from the customs harvest declaration (product codes). One colour permitted: the main variety of that colour. Two colours: from 85 percent of the hectares that colour applies, in between it is called mixed. Champagne: the dominant variety from the planted hectares per variety per commune from FranceAgriMer. Per polygon the dominant variety of its parts by area. Derived, not measured: the variety per plot exists only in the customs vineyard register, which is not public. In a two-colour appellation a single plot may carry the other variety. Customs withhold small appellations (statistical secrecy), in which case the split is missing.
- Bedrock
- The geological unit covering the largest share of the polygon, from the 1:50,000 geological map. At 1:50,000 the map separates one climat from another, but not what varies inside a climat.
- Organic
- Share of the area certified organic or in conversion, from the CartoBio plot register.